NO ONE NEEDS A PRESSHAH COOKAH TO COOK A DEAH!!!
Posted on 04/16/2013 1:07:14 PM PDT by Kartographer
The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.
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I bet there are more of them left than you might think. Think of them being that a bullet cartrige/casing.
Strangely enough, I saw a blimp while out for lunch today. Oddly colored with no other markings. Not a usual sight out where I live.
NPR has some woman who keeps repeating it could be a domestic group because of the aniversary of this or that item.
She REALLY personally discounts any other terror group.
The fact that it is a common islamic terror device, apparently used the same casio watch favored by that group, have used the identical methods, and targeted the same soft target is not important to the meme she is putting forward.
(meanwhile obama biden are pushing to make all events soft targets for terror groups)
A single piece would provide an accurate measure of the radius of the container.
It's not far from there to the capacity.
NO ONE NEEDS A PRESSHAH COOKAH TO COOK A DEAH!!!
That's what I was thinking but then these were supposedly the 6 liter size which is one of the smaller sizes at about 6 lbs. Two of them filled with BBs or whatever would be a considerable amount of weight. Then he'd have to have two backpacks and maybe more weight like a change of clothes, etc. to throw off any suspicion just in case. Even carrying two backpacks wouldn't have caused anyone to suspect anything as he could have been holding them for two racers. I can see leaving them beside a trashcan but the act of putting a backpack inside a trashcan would likely be noticed. And to get by with that twice would be too risky but what do I know.
same here but only my mom did it. There were dents in the cabinets and stuff above the stove for years from that thing blowing off.. it didn’t go straight up either, it twisted and few off backwards into the wall and cabinet. I think the hole got plugged or something... I never did really get the story on why it did that
For all we know the packpacks were placed in the cans prior to the event, similar to the box cutters being on the planes at Logan Airport.
They are talking about pressure cookers being used in the Boston bombing. There’s been no mention of the electrically heated type, which could have been used and I think triggered by a cell phone.
Command-detonated Pressure Cooker Mine In many parts of the world electrically-heated pressure cookers are commonly used for household cooking. This is typically a 2-liter aluminum pot with a locking lid wired with an electrical heating element. Both the pot and lid have insulated handles that lock together. The heating element is in the lid and heats the entire pot when turned on. An electrical wire with a male plug (of different design than that used in the US) runs out of the lid’s handle. This is similar in principal to an electrically-heated crock pot, which most of us are familiar with. In recent years in India and adjacent countries including Pakistan, these pressure cookers have been converted to command-detonated mines by separatist groups and other terrorists. The heating element inside the lid is disconnected from the lead wires and a camera flashbulb is spliced on with electrical tape. The plastic flashbulb globe is removed with a knife or hacksaw exposing the flash element. An electric blasting cap may be used. A plastic bag is packed with explosives (C4 kneaded into a large ball is ideal) and placed in the pot allowing for approximately 2 inches of clearance between the bag and the sides of the pot. Fragmentation materials are packed around the bag. Smaller fragments are used if the target is personnel and larger fragments if the target is a vehicle. A female electrical plug is spliced on to the end of an electrical firing wire or several commercially available extension cords with the type of plugs used in that region are connected together. The flashbulb or blasting cap is inserted into the center of the explosives (a wooden stick may be used), the lid secured to the pot by locking and applying electrical tape to weather seal it, and the mine is buried in or to the side of a road, trail, or other target area. The electrical firing wire is attached and it and the mine are camouflaged. The mines are normally detonated from 100-300 meters away, but they can be detonated closer if suitable cover, concealment, and an escape route are available. A small flashlight battery is used to detonate the pressure cooker mine.
It could have been more than one person. The two devices were some 75 yds apart but then one person could have place both. We just don’t know enough at this stage to be sure.
15 Quart pressure cooker? No one needs a pressure cooker that big! Tell the right wing tea party granny that a three ounce pressure cooker will do just fine. She’s not supposed to have a garden hoarding away food anyway. Bammy and brainy Joe says so.
It does look a little scary. Sort looks like a small nuclear reactor vessel.
hahaha!
I agree, and some of those have me disheartened, but that's my problem. What I want to know NELSON111 is how a pressure cooker makes a fireball. I've seen them explode on accident before. There was no fireball.
These were not simply 'pressure cooker' bombs. I don't know enough about things to know how that happened but I damn sure watched it occur.
Tiresome indeed.
Some interesting research being done on reddit
The explosion itself looked to me like gun powder...black powder. If you had large amounts of black powder in a pressure cooker...some sort of fuse in there...like a battery...you could detonate it with a simple kitchen timer. Tape a bunch of shrapnel around it...throw some in it...and boom.
That's why I think it is domestic. Islamic terrorists usually are better at making bigger bombs.
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